Jeannette Walls Quotes

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

O Rakshas, everything is always all right in the end. If it isn't all right, then it isn't the end

It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

Always have Faith. Always have Hope.

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Patience is the art of hoping.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Keep your head up and be patient.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.